English Explanatory Dictionary

Kerr geometry

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The geometry of empty spacetime around a rotating uncharged axially-symmetric black hole with a spherical event horizon.

Word forms

Kerr geometry Kerr geometries

Etymology

Named after New Zealand physicist Roy Kerr.

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